Manufacture of impression-stitch soles for boots and shoes



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L. 0. MAKEPEAOE.

MANUFACTURE OF IMPRESSION STITCH sows FOR BOOTS AND SHOES. No. 268,421.Patented Dec. 5,1882.

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ihvtTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LYSANDER O. MAKEPEAGE, OF VVOROESTER, MASSAUHUSETTS.

MANUFACTURE OF IMPRESSION-STITCH SOLES FOR BOOTS AN D SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,421, dated December5, 1882.

Application filed September 23, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYSANDER 0. MAKE- PEACE, of the city and county ofWorcester, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Impression- Stitch Soles and in the Process ofManufacturing the Same for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 anedge elevation, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a sole embodying myinvention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafterpresented. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the sole-blank as bent downnear its edges preparatory to having a portion of the part bent downremoved in order to bring the lower surface of the bent-down part flushwith the lower surface or flesh side of the sole.

In making leather soles for being marked around the edge by what aretermed by shoe makers impression-stitches, it, prior to the date of myinvention, has been customary to .chamfer or bevel the sole upon itshairside where to be marked or impressed, part of the grain-surfacebeing removed with the portion or strip of leather so taken from thesole. Soles so reduced frequently, if not always, present a roughsurface or appearance in the part impressed.

The object of my invention is to preserve the grain-surface of the soleentire, in order that after it may have been impressed it shall presentor have a better or smoother finish. By grain-surface is meant the sideor surface from which the hair of the hide may have been removed, theopposite side of the sole being usually termed the flesh side orsurface.

In carrying out my invention I bend down from its grain side-which is tobe supposed to be its upper side-the sole-blank, near its edge and aboutits sides and toe, in manner as shown in Fig. 4., in which S is thesole-blank, and a b c d the portion bent down at each edge (No model.)

of the sole with respect to the contiguous portion a d d a. The lowerside or surface, b a a b, in Fig. 4 is the flesh side of the leather orsole. Next, or at the same time, or previously, I remove from the partso bent down a strip, 0, triangular or substantially triangular intransverse section, so as to bring the entire lower surface of the solein-one plane, or the lower surface of the remainder of the part bentdown flush with the contiguous lower surface of the sole. The sole thustreated is to have the upper surface of the part bent downstitch-impressed, as shown at f in Figs. 1 and 2. The bending down ofthe sole and the paring and impressing of it I usually accomplish at oneand the same time, or thercabout, by a machine especially made for thepurpose.

I claim- 1 The described improvement in the process of treating a bootor shoe sole, such consisting in bending such sole down at its edge inmanner as set forth, and embossing or stitchimpressing the upper side ofthe part bent down, and paring or reducing the lower portion of suchpart, so as to bring the entire lower soleface essentially into oneplane, as explained.

2. A boot or shoe sole embossed or stitchimpressed on its grain-surface,along the edge thereof, and having the part of such surface so embossedor stitch-impressed at an obtuse an gle with the next adjacent part ofthe said grain-surface.

3. A boot or shoe. sole embossed or stitchimpressed on itsgrain-surface, along the edge thereof, and having the part of suchsurface so embossed or stitch-impressed at an obtuse angle with the nextadjacent part of said grainsnrface, and also having the opposite orflesh side essentially in one plane, or flush from edge to edge, asrepresented.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

